BreathDx – molecular analysis of exhaled breath as a diagnostic test for ventilator–associated pneumonia: protocol for a European multicentre observational study

BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) remains time-consuming and costly, the clinical tools lack specificity and a bedside test to exclude infection in suspected patients is unavailable. Breath contains hundreds to thousands of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that resu...

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Autores principales: van Oort, Pouline M. P., Nijsen, Tamara, Weda, Hans, Knobel, Hugo, Dark, Paul, Felton, Timothy, Rattray, Nicholas J. W., Lawal, Oluwasola, Ahmed, Waqar, Portsmouth, Craig, Sterk, Peter J., Schultz, Marcus J., Zakharkina, Tetyana, Artigas, Antonio, Povoa, Pedro, Martin-Loeches, Ignacio, Fowler, Stephen J., Bos, Lieuwe D. J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5210294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28049457
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-016-0353-7

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